2 SS = % A2 Castlegar News _2%!y 10. 1985 f WEATHER = . 5 SYNOPSIS: A ridge of high pressure along the B.C. coos! today will continue to keep skies sunny and temperatures warm lor the next five days. FIRES continued from front page products general manager, said today. —_ but said, dreds’’. “It would be in the hun- Melons. dumped VANCOUVER (CP) — More than $100,000 worth of watermelons is . being ground to pulp this week across B.C. ‘The imported melons, with * a wholesale value of about 45 cents a -kilogram, were de- _clared_ unfit for human con-” “sumption. About 135,000 kilograms of the California grown melons were dumped’ at two Van- couver area. landfills. _ That -leaves about 90,000 kilograms . waiting to be dumped, said federal food inspector Barry Morgan. Each future watermelon from’ California will carry a sticker assuring consumers that its grower's field is free of the pesticide aldicarb. Importers, wholesalers "and retailers were left hold- ing the bag when pesticide turned) up in California melons and B.C. cucumbers. | battling a fire that covers 120 hectares. He said 30 fires are sill burning in “*We're basically down and we're all He added he is concerned ‘about the the district but have been contained RELAXING BETWEEN RUNS ... . tanker pilot Stubby fighting fires." continuing hot weather. and are ** under observation." The fires ‘| He added later that-only loggers in the tree farm area north of Revelstoke are still operating. Cross says there are 16 fires on the tree farm, two of which are ‘‘a major concern."" He said forest is the - “The woods are a "he have said. x As well, he said there ign’t any firefighting equipment left in the area. + ‘We've scraped the town dry.”’ Berukoff said the Forest Service has 15 five large tanker trucks Forest Service’s responsibility, but Westar has pitched in to help battle the blazes because the Forest Service is stretched to the limit. Cross couldn't give a figure on how many Westar loggers are fighting fires and five helicopters battling the blazes, in addition to the three air tankers. The Arrow District’ has 300 fire- fighters working on 19 fires, he said. The largest fire is the ‘Fish”’ fire north of Silverton where 55 firefighters are a total of 450 hectares. Berukoff also said the forest ministry has instituted ground patrols for *‘sen- sitive _areas’’ such as Deer Park and near’Salmo. In addition, the number of © air patrols has been doubled, and a rap-attack crew is on standby in Nakusp. E However, he cautioned that none of the fires threatens any residgnces. “There is no present danger to anybody yet,"’ he said. Inland stri ke continues Holmes (left) and “bird dog” pilot Ray Horton take some time’ 1 in the sun to unwind alter fighting ies: Pilots are on constant alert from dawn to dus! CosNews Photo By Simon Burch By CasNews Staff ‘A strike by 150 members of the Office and Technical Employees Union against In- land Natural Gas Co. turned a week old today without a ray of hope for a settlement. Phil Murray, Inland Nat- ural Gas district. manager said from his Trail office Tuesday that the situation hasn't changed ' since the strike began. “No negotiations are scheduled,” Murray said. Contract talks between the union and the company broke off about two weeks ago. The OTEU’s contract expired on March 31. The OTEU has one mem- ber at the Castlegar office ‘No swimming in Kinnaird pool and four in Trail. “The major stumbling block is. wages. The union is informal Labor Relations Board Hearing in Vancouver involving the union and the a th Y tract containing a $1,000 signing bonus, a 3.5 per cent wage increase in the second year and a five per cent increase in the third year. The company is offering a 41-month contract modelled on the recent B.C. Rail pact that would provide a $500 signing bonus, a 3.5 per cent increase on Oct.-1, 1986 and five per. cent effective April 1987. About 135 members of the i of con:- is. still The two sides are trying to straighten out regulations. Murray said Inland is seeking an injunction against . pickets in the Chase-Sorrento area. He added that Inland supervisors are performing the duties of the unions although no __ construction work is being done. He said customers paying bills _are not affected but h By CasNews Staff The ornamental pool at Kinnaird Park will remain an- ornamental pool, .says Castlegar council. Ald. Carl Henne, chair- man of the parks and recreation. committee, told a recent council meeting that a resident complained about.the rocks and dirt in the pool after her “one- ‘or two-year-old” swam in it. with his tongue firmly in “We're not going .to advocate’ having people’ swim in it,". said Henne his cheek. “It will stay as an ornamental pool.” And there will be no diving, added Ald. Albert Calderbank. The pool is only about 25 centimetres (10 -inches) deep. Police file Valley resident doesn't mind being a gooper By SIMON BIRCH ~~~ Staff Writer. Rob Ganderton is a gooper. But he doesn’t.mind. *Ganderton, a Créscent Valley resident who just graduated from high school, is part of the crew that loads the ‘tanker planes with fire retardant at the Castlegar Airport tanker base. Ganderton explained how the dry. red powder is sucked from one-and-a-half metre high plastic bags, which look like overstuffed black garbage bags, into 40,000-litre underground containers where it is mixed with water. “There are four underground Containers at the base, two used for retardant and two as reserve water supplies. John Laing, one of the tanker pilots. based at Castlegar, described the mixture, which is actually a fertilizer with some additives ‘as a ‘‘long-term fire retardant,” as opposed to water which is considered short-term. Laing said the red color comes from iron oxide, or common rust, which is added to the retardant as an indicator so that the pilots can see the areas that have already been bombed. those Electrical Workers are honoring. the OTEU picket line, including one IBEW member in Castlegar and nine at the Trail office. Meanwhile Murray said an could have problems. — Customers who want to terminate their account or apply for service where a meter already exists won't have any, problems, he said. Mom, boyfriend tied daughter OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A mother and her béyfriend were arrested after police found the woman’s four-year- RCMP Staff Sgt. * John Stevens said today -it is possible charges may be laid in connection with the two- - car collision on Broadwater Road last Friday. Four people were taken to Castlegar and District Hos- pital after a Chevrolet pick- up collided with a Chevrolet station’ wagon. ne Treated and released were the driver of the wagon, Tom. Stuckless of Robson, his wife Jean and 11-year-old son, Russell, and the driver of the pick-up, Edward Arishenkoff\ of Cas- tlegar. The accident is still under investigation, Stevens said. staion, old tied up in arcar in almost 38-degree heat. Neightbors spotted the girl, Carolyn Lee, about 11 a.m. Tuesday lying in a pool of urine in the back seat of a parked 1975 Cadillac sedan and called police, Her wrists and ankles were bound with electrical cord and tied to opposite sides of the car,. police said. The San Francisco Chron- icle said that as policemen released her, the sobbing child told Officer Bob Gillies: “My mommy doesn’t_lave. me. Do you want to take me home’ Gillies said the car had-to be more than 38 degrees inside and was full of dirty clothes. Only the driver's window was open, about 20- centimetres, he said. ~ The mnother, Shirley Dyer, and her boyfriend, Darron Singleton, both 22, arrived at the car: with ther '18-month- old son about 10 minutes after the girl was freed. Dyer told police she had “the summer. The retardant also contains guar gum, a common ice-cream additive, to thicken the mixture to a con- sistency of cream so that it doesn’t scatter ineffectively like rain when dropped on a fire. One of the side benefits of using a fertilizer'as a fire retardant-is-that-it-promotes growth in the ravaged forests. “The, red color eventually fades out and next year you can see where the grass is lusciously green," said~ Ray Horton, another Conair pilot based in Castlegar for From the underground containers, the retardant is pumped ‘into the Firecat tankers. There are three tankers based at Castlegar and:each holds about 3,300 litres of retardant. The tankers are built with four doors which can be opened simultaneously or one at a time to drop the retardant. Ganderton said Monday was a particularly busy day" at-the base. He said 22 loads were pumped into the planes that day, two to three times the average of seven to 10 loads. ee COUNCIL BRIEFS Castlegar council has asked the Gyro Club to take charge of construction of a new: ball diamond - at the Community Complex. Gouncil also agreed to deléte 86 parking stalls from the complex plan in order to fit a full-sized ball field on the Property. . A wikis hearing has been set for Tuesday at city hall to €onsider an application to rezone a piece of property next to the community com- Council gave official approval to twinning Cas- tlegar with a city of the Soviet Union. An ad hoc committee made up of “members of the community has been formed to organize the twinning. . 8 Council has thrown its support behind Air BC's application to provide daily service between Castlegar and Vancouver. plex from light industrial to heavy industrial. ‘The property owners plan to build a bulk: fuel plant. ose Council has asked city staff Tourist - Alert FIREFIGHTERS | continued from front poge watch out for the tail propellers on helicopters and sent to British Columbis's most volatile fire area. ‘BOSS DOESN'T KNOW" ~_ - One group of young firefighters said their boss is just as inexperienced as they are, which has them concerned about their safety. ‘And their fatigue after fighting between 12 and 15 hours a day has them concerned about how aware they would be if the fire suddenly turned on them. Pictin said it is unfair to direct the criticism at them. “We listen to the radio in the morning and they make it sound like we're at fault because we're inexperienced,” he said. “But we never got trained how to do anything. “All they do is hand us our tools and assign us a place © and a position and that's about it. - “Our crew never had a first-aid kit until today and even then it's not a complete one, it’s just a couple of bandaids and odds and ends. If somebody had a real major burn, I'd say they'd suffer.” ,” Another firefighter said his crew still-has no first-aid kits. Even the estimated 70 people who have- remained behind in Canal Flats, despite an order by the provincial Forests Ministry to . the inexperience. WORRIES ABOUT 'KIDS' Daryl] Sagar, one of the volunteers at the two firehalls, said the “kids” from Nelson don’t know what they are doing. “I think the major concern is worrying about those guys in the bush. If this fire does blow up, there's going to be a RENDEZ-VOUS AT THE PARK .. . sisters Isabelle Builet of Robson and Suberte Robbie of Raspberry will per- form in the second set Thursday at 12: 30 in.the con- _ tinuing concert in the park series. More good music as park concerts continue — Thursday's concert in the park’ will be split into two sets. At- 12 noon, Stephan Baal will start things off with renditions of tunes by Jamie ‘Robertson, Bob Dylan, Gor- don Lightfoot, Neil Young and Stan Rogers. © A’ recent newcomer. to Castlegar, Baal was born on Vancouver Island and spent most of his life on the west coast. He began playing guitar at age sixteen but had difficulty finding music with which he could identify until some years later when he was taken with the music of the late Stan Rogers. Like most working family people, he finds little time to write and practise his ori- ginal material, so his repe- toire includes old favorites of Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen. and other folk artists. The second set at 12:30 p.m. will be performed by Rendez-vous, Sisters, Isa- Council to help. Expo 86 committee Castlegar council has agreed to help fund the local Expo 86 committee with “seed money”: “It is definitely a need,” said Ald. Marily Mathieson at arecent council meeting. She nated that council should set aside some funds in its budget for tourism. ~ budget for tourism. Ald. Bob MacBain added that the money would only be used to help get the comm- ittee started, after which the committee. would be “self- supporting”. Council agreed to have its finance.committee determine how much to’ give the Expo committee. Ald. Len Embree agreed to the request, but pointed out ~E a z \ i i “STEPHAN BAAL belle Builet_of Robson and Suberte Robbie of Raspberry are originally from. Ottawa and have spent the last years in B.C. Playing and- singing for years, they formed a duo several years ago and haye been playing in Vancouver and: the Kootenays- Music with harmony is their forte. They sing a var- iety of folk anc contemporary songs and accompany them- selves on steel string guitars. SS TREET. “TALK -- ONE OF THE NEW fates in Ontario Premier David Peterson's cabinet isa familiar face to residents of the Slocan Valley. reg: Sorbara, a Toront lawyer rep! van North, is the minister for colleges, universities and youth employment in, the new Liberal government. Sorbara is.a forgner'resident of the Slocan Valley who moved to Toronto some time ago. a HAVE YOU wondered why Pacific Western Airlines| Kelowna to Vancouver flight Soe as Ittle.as $55 return, while the cheapest C: ‘0 Vanco return flight is more than twice that at su? PWA says the-reason is CP Air. CP. Air began offering a cheap $55 flight this winter in a bid to dilute| PWA's share of the Kelowna-Vancouver market, says PWA. : PWA responded by selling a limited number of seats at the same price in order to be competitive. “This fare should in no way be used as a comparison with regular fares that are offered on a system-wide basis,” says PWA. Be Castlegar travellers aren't ‘subsidizing the Kelowna! flights, but in fact. meceiye comparable fares on a per mille is, contends PWA. PWA bases its A ‘on a mileage formula which is used generally throughout the airline's network: “Vancouver-Castlegar fares are higher than fares beiwéen Vancouver and Kelowna, given the greater| distance between Vancouver and Kelowna,” says PWA. Vancouver to Castlegar is 250 statute mailes, while Vancouver to Kelowna is 178 statute miles. Here are some rates to compare: L Return excursion, less than seven days and staying a Saturday night: Kelowna-$119; Castlegar-$152. Return’ excursion, seven days or more, staying a Saturday night: Kelowna $103; Castlegar-$131. Return excursion, 14 days or more, staying a Saturday night: Kelowna $103; Castlegar-$131. Return excursion, 14 days or more, staying a Saturday night: Kelowna:$87; Castlegar-$111. Meanwhile, those cheap flights to Vancouver May not be too far off for Castlegar residents. Kootenay West MPO Bob Brisco has asked CP Air to consider twice} weekly charter flights to Castlegar. is THAT STORY about the North Vancouver Mountie’ who quit the force after police'said he used the credit card of a fellow officer, has a local angle of sorts. The fellow officer whose credit card was used is’ Const. Darryl Little, now stationed at the Rossland detachment. The former North Vancouve¥Mountie is Jerry Publ, now of Ri He was ‘from the RCMP in [December after an officer used a Visa card owned by Little to’ pay for an-escort service and other “material goods”, according to North Van RCMP. ae The officer wasn’t ever. charged, even though the RCMP recomended the regional Crown prosecutor lay charges. - EVER HAD. THE urge to drive over those freshly painted centre lines on highways? Don't. The Ministry of Highways has decided to crack down on drivers who mess lup those centre lines. Highways Minister Alex Fraser has issued.a warning that anyone spotted ignoring warning signs and travell- ling over the freshly painted centre lines or destroying Inewly recoated highways will be reported to Police and face charges. Changes made VICTORIA (CP) — Second mortgage loans taken out by homeowners over 60 years ‘old will-be-forgiven on their death under minor tegislative ‘hanges brought into effect by regulation. 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CUCUMBERS 89° BEER STORE ; continued from front poge » left her_daughter tied up tosee if there are any funds while they went to a nearby jin. the 1985 budget. for service’ station because the highway signs on the out- few of those kids up“there who're going to get hurt.” Ken Lines, a minstry spokesman in Victoria who could only comment in general terms on the situation, said: that council hears of “entre- « Inplain words, you as a businessperson preneurial sp VANCOUVER (CP) — offer your products or services at a COST. PRICES EFFECTIVE JULY 11,12813 Corporate Affairs Ministry, said the ministry | should announce _ final approval for wine and beer stores in i hotels “in a few days”. “We're very, very close to making a decision in a few days,” he said in a Stevens added that once the announcement has been made; the _Hi Arrow will “be able to move very “ quickly”. Esposito said the wine and beer store will-be located where the old coffee shop used to be. The coffee ¥ shop has been relocated to the dining room. telephone interview from Victoria. | “ Store hours haven't been set yet because the ministry hasn't spelled out all the “fine details”, he said. However, Esposito said he expects thi n-when——> government liquor outlets are closed. That. should allow: for late night shopping. : .In addition, the store will sell “novelties” such.as wine glasses, cigarettes and other items. “Esposito-suid-any—class A hotel will be able to have a beer and wine store, complete. with a -drive- through window. However, he said the ‘Hi Arrow will not, have a drive-through outlet. } girl was always running away. She also said she did not wnt her daughter any- - more, Gillies said. nO Dyer and.Aagieton were booked ‘on suspici n of wilful cruelty to a child. They were held in lieu ot $6,000° bail each. The girl. and her brother were taken into protective custody. . ; Dr. Terry Fotre, an emer- gency room doctor, said a vive more than one hour locked in a car with the i up in such heat. child probably would not.sur-— skirts of the city. As well, council is arrang- ing a meeting with the Ministry of Highways, the “Castlegar Commerce and the advisory planning commission ' to discuss signs for the city. The cae a District Peace Group will plant a tree on Aug. 6 in commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima. The tree will be planted on Zuckerberg Island under-the direction -of John. Charters, chairman of the Heritage Committee. Chamber of Here is the RCMP Tourist Alert for today. The following people are asked to contact their nearest RCMP DETAC- _HMENT-FOR-AN_URGENT PERSONAL MESSAGE: James ‘Buck of- Mountlake Terrace, Wash. Jim Carson of Nanaimo. Gerald’ Gannon of Ignace, Ont. Delmar Gran- is of Rutind, Vermont. Egon Hollm of ‘Locust Grove, Vir- ginia. Charles Lee ‘Harrison of Mission, B.C. Victor Lutz of Calgary. Lyle Reid of Smithers, B.C. Earl Shultz of Sterling, Ill. John Vandeur- zen of Lethbridge, Aha. “We have a very heavy load of forest’ fires. Obviously we have had to pull in people who have not worked on fires before. But normally the boss keeps a close hold:on them.” Other. ministry officials remained cloistered behind tth about 10 kilometres from Invermere. They were unavailable for comment. British Columbia's fire situation appeared to be the -worst in Canada on Tuesday. About 34 forest fires were burning in Labrador but most were in remote areas and posed no dangers to communities. Newfoundland firefighters were getting some help from rain, but in B.C. the forecast offered no hope of precipitation and temperatures continued to hover in the high 30s. One fire 50 kilometres northeast of Peace River, Alta., continued to burn out of control, covering 4,000 hectares..A 1,400-hectare fire 100 kilometres northwest of Peace River was brought under control. end organizations ask Cas- tlegar taxpapers . pick up the tab. “I have some tfouble with Efitered Our 50 litre gas draw? To be drawn every Friday CASTLEGAR MOHAWK 1415 Columbia Avenve Castlegar 365-7811 But you INVEST in the advertising to reach those customers. And, as with any investment, you should ~ choose your media “broker” as carefully as _you would for your portfolio. Newspapers are.your best advertising investment opportunity. BUSINESS HOURS Mon., Tues., Wed. & Sat. * 9a.m. to6p.m. Thurs. & Fri. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. . SUNDAYS CLOSED